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IT in the D
IT in the D is your insider look at the tech scene in Detroit. Started in 2007 as a meetup group in Metro Detroit for IT professionals, the IT in the D podcast was born in 2013 as an extension of those conversations. Host Bob Waltenspiel and co-host and producer Randy Walker are IT industry veterans, but IT in the D is intentionally more conversational and less instructional. Each weekly show has guests ranging from CIOs and local rock stars, to subject matter experts, local event organizers…
Episodes
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IT In The D – Episode 55: Newco and Hatch Detroit
IT in the D, Episode 55, and a really solid episode tonight. Kind of rushing this recap in an effort to get the broadcast out quickly so that people can hear…
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IT In The D – Episode 54: Blame It On The Rain
IT in the D, Episode 54, and yes, we were complete idiots and drove downtown in the midst of flooded roads, crazy rain, dead and abandoned cars, and mass…
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IT In The D – Episode 53: Taco Bell Phones, Arcade Games, Random Fun
IT in the D, Episode 53. This, dear readers and listeners, was a fun episode. Huge thanks to our guests Paul from Core 3 Solutions, as well as recurring…
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IT In The D – Episode 52: Cheap Chimp and Re-Source Partners
IT in the D, Episode 52. Another really fun night in-studio, and thankfully without most of the sound problems that have plagued our last few episodes. We were…
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IT In The D – Episode 51: Public Relations, Graphic Novels and Makers
IT in the D, Episode 51. Another week, another great episode out into the ether. From our opening banter about the usual rounds of chaos to talking managing…
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IT In The D – Episode 50: Assemble, Girl Develop IT, Detroit Labs, Brightwing and More
IT in the D, Episode 50. We were going to call it "Girls, Girls, Girls", but then we realized that we'd probably get "Slapped, Slapped, Slapped", and…
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IT In The D – Episode 49: Hatch Detroit, Bamboo Detroit, Hell Yeah Detroit, detroitDetroitDETROIT
IT in the D, Episode 49. Or "Season 2, Episode 5" because no, we haven't let that go yet. We talked a lot about Detroit this episode. A lot. We also had some…
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IT In The D – Episode 48: Crossing the Streams, Operation Kid Equip and XICW Wrestling
IT in the D, Episode 48. Or "Season 2, Episode 4" for those paying attention. If you've never listened to an episode of our show before, and if you never…
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IT In The D – Episode 47: IT in the D is NOT Rebranding, HITEC, Spincard and Valentine Distilling
IT in the D, Episode 47. Or "Season 2, Episode 3" for those keeping score at home. Extremely solid episode. We could have easily spent an hour or more with…
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IT In The D – Episode 46: Simply Social Media and Hell Yeah Detroit
IT in the D, episode 46. Or "Season 2, Episode 2". Whatever. I'm still trying to figure out if I really want to go back, edit and rename all of the old…
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IT In The D – Episode 45: OriginalStix.com, DISYS, Creepy Technology and More
IT in the D, episode 45. Or "Season 2, Episode 1". However you want to look at it, it was a pretty fun episode. From Facebook getting all NSA about stuff to…
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IT in the D Goes To Motor City Comic Con 2014
If you've listened to the show recently, then you already know we had a blast hanging out, meeting people, chatting with local artists and some of our favorite…
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IT In The D: The Anniversary Show Broadcast
IT in the D, the anniversary show. Anniversary..birthday...however you look at it, it wound up pretty much like most of our birthday parties over the years…
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IT In The D – Episode 43: Comic Con Recap, MEDC, Secure-24 and More
IT in the D, episode 43. We couldn't really ask for a more solid episode. Well...I guess we could...but then we'd just be getting greedy. From our Motor City…
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IT In The D – Episode 42: Uber, Digerati Girls, Wrestling, Events, Hell Yeah Detroit and More
Wow. Just..."wow". What a great episode. Phenomenal conversations with guests from Uber, Digerati Girls, Hell Yeah Detroit and the producer of Wrestling's…
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IT In The D – Episode 41: Templar Gaming, Civic Day of Hacking, Porn, Banking and More
IT in the D, Episode 41. Another great episode, that wandered a bit, and yet hit on some great information for things in the area. With Templar Games in…
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IT In The D – Episode 40: Hajj Flemings, Delane Parnell, StarterFest and More
Tonight was one of those nights in-studio where we got to basically next to none of the topics we had queued up for the night. Which isn't a bad thing. It…
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IT In The D – Episode 39: Comic Con, Roller Derby, Assemble Detroit and More
IT in the D, Episode 39...another rant to kick things off, this one based on a stunning revelation that came our way last week about a group member. Then we…
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IT In The D – Episode 39: Michael Goldman, Motor City Comic Con
IT in the D, Episode 39 We decided to go ahead and isolate the segment with Michael Goldman of Motor City Comic Con since we knew it might be of specific…
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IT In The D – Episode 38: Heartbleed, training and your career, rants, news and more
IT in the D, Episode 38...from an opening rant to training classes that can help you with your career to the whole heartbleed debacle that's ripping through…
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IT In The D – Episode 37 – One Month Apps, Zing Wireless, Air-Packet and Pssst…Hey, Man…
IT in the D, Episode 37...and what a great time we had tonight. Bob and Dave flew without their safety net as the Voice of Reason was out of town, and…
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IT in the D, Episode 36: WTF is Bitcoin and Hell Yeah Detroit
IT in the D, Episode 36 We're joined in studio by Mike Dennis, who valiantly tried to help us understand WTF bitcoin is all about, and the Hell Yeah Detroit…
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IT in the D, Episode 35: Fashionable Ferndale
IT in the D, Episode 35. This time around we were joined by Andy and PJ from Go Comedy! Improv Theater and Neil Nosakowski of Activ8 Gaming. Both companies are…
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IT in the D, Episode 34: Brightwing, Russ’ Ethiopian Adventure, Random Celebrities
IT in the D, Episode 34. For those listening last week, Bob was horrified when he realized that last Monday being the 10th meant that this Monday was the 17th…
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IT in the D, Episode 33: Arrow Strategies, Bamboo Detroit, Hell Yeah Detroit and More
IT in The D, Episode 33. I'm pretty sure that my favorite part of tonight's episode was when Bob had the stunning realization that tonight was the 10th…
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IT in the D Episode 32: Tips, Tricks, Tickets and Turtles
IT in The D, Episode 32. We experienced some serious technical difficulties with the show last night - the live stream had some problems, and it turns out that…
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IT in the D Episode 31: Social Media Round Up
IT in The D, Episode 31. We're joined in-studio by veteran guest Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media, as well as newcomer Julie Van Ameyde of Simply Social…
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IT in the D Episode 30: Hajj Flemings, Uber, Our Event and Tons More
IT in the D, Episode 30. We had Hajj Flemings as our in-studio guest to talk about his areas of expertise like branding, social media personas, and everything…
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IT in the D Episode 29: The Basics, Our Events, and More Hacks
IT in the D, Episode 29. No guests this time around, and it's just Jeff and Dave in-studio, joined a bit by Karen from The Corner with K-Hubb and Marcus from…
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Episode 28: Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
IT in the D, Episode 28: Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls We're joined in-studio by our guests from Agile and Beyond, making a repeat appearance to talk about their…
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IT in the D, Episode 27: What’s The End Game?
IT in the D, Episode 27. Our second broadcast of the year. Just the three of us hanging out and talking about quite a few topics that caught our eye in the…
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IT in the D, Episode 26: PishPosh TV, 3D Printing and More
IT in the D, Episode 26. Our first broadcast of 2014. We had no guests when we hit our pre-show meeting spot...and then suddenly we had a full house. Great set…
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IT in the D, Episode 25: The Last Broadcast of 2013
IT in the D, Episode 25. We decided that the last broadcast of the year would be just the three of us hanging out, chatting about news, events, and just about…
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IT in the D, Episode 24: Code Michigan, Affluenza and More
IT in the D, Episode 24. It's almost Christmas, and so let's chat about some good stuff going on in the area... Recapping our last event of 2013 at Rochester…
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IT in the D, Episode 23: IT in The O.C.
IT in the D, Episode 23. IT in the D learned all about IT in the O.C. last night, as we were joined in-studio by Phil Bertolini, CIO and Deputy County…
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IT in the D, Episode 22: Mobility, Mobile Apps and Strategy
IT in the D, Episode 22 This was a GREAT episode. One of the ones where we could have sat there for anther two or three hours easily, and never run out of…
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IT in the D, Episode 21: We Can Drink Legally Now!
Episode 21 of the IT in the D show was exactly what we needed. We were joined in studio by long-time friend of the program Jeff Haase in-studio. That of course…
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IT in the D, Episode 20: D:Hive and Getting Hired
Episode 20 of the IT in the D show with April Boyle from D:Hive Detroit and Stephanie Goodrich of Secure-24. In our first segment, we talk through news and…
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IT in the D, Episode 19: Canadian Legal
IT in the D, Episode 19: Canadian Legal. Original air date: 11/11/2013 Good episode. We had Matt Oehrlein from i3detroit, a pretty cool "hacker space" located…
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IT in the D, Episode 18: Agile and Beyond, Toscano Media, Blue Argyle Media
IT in the D, episode 18. Original air date 11/4/2013. Bob abandoned us for his stupid job, so it was Dave and Jeff holding down the fort with some really cool…
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IT in the D, Episode 17, Full Episode: Girl Develop It – Detroit, Social Media Coop Detroit
IT in the D, Episode 17. Original air date 10/28/2013. Another great show. With return guests Erika and Michelle from Girl Develop It - Detroit and Billy…
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IT in the D, Episode 16: Falling Down Beer Company, Marketplace Homes, Absotech
IT in the D, Episode 16. Original air date 10/21/2013. Our guests include Mark Larson, one of the owners of Falling Down Beer Company, Mark Shaftner, COO of…
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IT in the D, Episode 15: iTalent, Goodwill Industries Detroit and More
IT in the D, Episode 15. The full episode of our show from 10/14/2013... Great night with Davina Beh, Scott Sabellico, and Melinda Ann Prince as our in-studio…
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IT in the D – Episode 14, Full Episode: Brightwing, Interviewing and The Job Search
The IT in the D show is joined by Elyse Lopez, April Jennings, and George Opitz of Brightwing to discuss what they do, how they see the market going…
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IT in the D, Episode 13: Great Lakes Technology Showcase and Arrow Strategies
IT in the D, Episode 13, full episode... We were joined by two of our sponsors from our 9/19 Pink Slip Party at Saint Andrews Hall for our 13th episode. This…
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IT in the D, Episode 12, Full Episode: Pink Slip Party Recap, Mark Stanislav of Duo Security
IT in the D, Episode 12, full episode... IT in the D is joined by Mark Stanislav of Duo Security. Over the course of this episode, we talk security basics, two…
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IT in the D, Episode 11, full episode – Grand Circus, Ann Arbor Give Camp, Pink Slip Party
IT in the D, Episode 11, full episode... IT in the D chats with Brad from Grand Circus, Jay from Ann Arbor Give Camp, and all about our Pink Slip Party. As a…
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The Ten Commandments of Networking
[editorial note: This is the original version, as published back in July of 2009. As with all good things, it's been updated over time. You can find the most…
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IT in the D, Episode 10: Hatch Detroit, Michipreneur, Beacon Hill Staffing – Full Episode
Could not possibly have asked for a better group to have in-studio with us last night. Hatch Detroit and their four finalists. Michipreneur. Bamboo Detroit…
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IT in the D, Episode 9: Arrow Strategies and Yelp – Full Episode
IT in the D, Episode 9 was...well, it was pretty damned solid. We had Steve Gaura from Arrow Strategies in, as well as Annette, the metro Detroit Community…
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IT in The D Podcast: Episode 8, Full Episode
Our second attempt at Episode 8 came off very nicely. With some great in-studio guests, the conversation flowed really well, and we covered a whole host of…
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IT in the D, Episode 7 is Now Live
Episode 7, air date: July 15, 2013 The IT in the D crew is joined by Stephanie Goodrich from Secure-24, Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media Detroit, and…
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IT in the D, Episode 6: It’s a Trap – Live and Available
Episode 6, air date: 7/8/2013 The IT in the D crew is joined by Scott Sabellico of Project Leadership Associates (http://www.projectleadership.net/) and Jeff…
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IT in the D, Episode V – Live and Available
Episode V: Something, Something, Something Strikes Back is now live and available. QA is Quality Assurance, and we had two practitioners in-house to chat with…
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IT in The D, Episode 4 – Falling Down Beer Company and BJ Strawter: Full Episode
So that was fun. Welcome to Episode 4 of IT in The D, and we've got some really great guests in studio... Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media We've got Billy…
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IT in The D Podcast: Episode 3 with Mark Brown of Brown Staffing Solutions – Full Episode
Welcome to our third episode of our "IT in The D" radio show, and we're all about networking. This time around, we've lost our Voice of Reason, but we've…
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IT in The D, Episode II: Ladies, Leather and Learning – UPDATED
So last week's debut of "IT in The D" was kind of like Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. I mean, you already basically knew where things were going, there was…
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“IT in The D” Hits The Airwaves, Fun Ensues – UPDATED
So Monday night was pretty awesome. You know...if we do say so ourselves. In case you missed the memo (and shame on you if you did), our "IT in The D" live…